"What's Next in the BPM Technology". Presentation of Bruce Silver at the BPM Forum in Milan, introducing the promises first-generation BPM has fulfilled and left unfulfilled, and both the promises and challenges of the next generation. Software is now 10 years old and has many characteristics of a mature technology. However, a new generation of process innovation is underway, leveraging the latest in mobile devices, social networks, Big Data, business events, and adaptive case management.

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What’s Next in BPM Technology?
Bruce Silver
bruce@brsilver.com

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Rules for Submitters
• Talk about something I
haven’t seen before
• Actually, SHOW me,
don’t just tell me
• Spur my imagination

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Format
 2 days, 24 presentations: 20 minutes demo + 10 minutes Q&A
 Technology focus, work still in the labs (a few shipping products)
 Peer-to-peer interaction
Themes
1. Lowering the barriers to business people
2. Expanding the boundaries of analysis
3. Social/mobile/cloud enablement
4. Managing knowledge work, ad hoc exceptions, adaptive processes

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bpmNEXT 2013 Themes
BPTrends view of the conference topics

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Some Highlights…
1. Signavio
 How do you make it easier to engage business people in modeling their processes?
2. Fluxicon
 How do you discover how your process really works (from transaction logs)?
3. Oracle
 How can business people create advanced BAM dashboards themselves?
4. Webratio
 Model-driven processes leveraging social networks
5. Tidalwave
 How small businesses can create their own BPM apps in Facebook
6. BP3
 How can you best leverage mobile devices for BPM?
7. IBM
 How can making data (business entities) a first-class object in BPM help with ad-hoc exceptions?
8. Whitestein
 How goal-driven automation coordinates processes across the value chain

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Lowering the BPMN Barrier
 Signavio
 Cloud-based BPMN and team repository
 How to get business users engaged in modeling

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Discovering the “Real” Process Flow
 Fluxicon
 Process mining analyzes transaction logs to discover and analyze the flow

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Advanced BAM Dashboards without Code
 Oracle
 Process Composer, BAM Composer – browser-based tooling for business

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Model-Driven Social BPM
 WebRatio
 Complete model-driven app dev – BPMN + WebML + special “units”

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Simple BPM App Builder for Facebook
 TidalWave
 Empowering Facebook users to create BPM apps themselves

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BPM for Mobile, Mobile for BPM
 BP3
 Building responsive, device-aware hybrid app within standard BPMS IDE

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Data-Centric BPM
 IBM
 “Managed data” the key to ad hoc exception handling

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Goal-Driven BPM
 Whitestein
 Goal-monitoring agents coordinate processes across the value stream

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Dawn of the New Generation
 BPM technology continues to get better…
 Lower barriers to business people
 More powerful analytics
 More adaptive, goal-directed
 Cloud, mobile, social take center stage
 Full videos available for free at bpmNEXT.com
 Mark your calendars for bpmNEXT 2014 – March 25-27, 2014
 For more information, contact bruce@brsilver.com or visit bpmnext.com